Hi there, I am Vietnamese, I've studied English for a long time, and recently I've been learning Chinese. It's such a beautiful but difficult tongue. It's been 2 years, I hope you got better your English.
As a Chinese learner, I also advise to start with the radicals then learn whole characters, because the radicals are the building blocks of every Chinese character so memorising them first helps you almost instantly remember any Chinese character you will meet.When I began learning Chinese, I started directly learning whole characters without knowing about the radicals so it was much harder that way, thats why I'm still so bad at writing in Chinese.
I am a Chinese student in the US. I 100% agree with what you said! When I was a child, I start the characters with radicals first in school. That is 100% great advice. I am also learning English now by trying to remember more prefixes and suffixes so that I can identify unfamiliar words. You can understand 80% of Chinese words if you remember Chinese radicals well. left the 20%, cause most Chinese don't even recognize them. Chinese started with pictographs, so remember what they look like when you memorize the radicals! You will be good!
@@chengbowen8264 This is not the only reason I'm not that good at writing Chinese.I use Chinese keyboard with Pinyin input so when I have to write in Chinese by hand I still forget the characters because I didn't have exercised handwriting enough, even though now I know the method of learning Chinese characters.On the other hand, that's right.Sometimes I'm surprised that I can guess the correct meaning and pronunciation of a character based on its radicals even though I never learned it before.It helps a lot with reading.
@@dulmaria.d I am chinese and started learning chinese now. I use radicals to build more characters and memerise by practise writing. Try to remember the meaning of the radicals and what category of words are attached with it. i use the apps name Pleco. Pleco is very comprehensive except it dont provide grammars and sentences. I guess you need to invest in a good dictionary. I also search for chinese radicals in youtube. In addition i learn chinese online myself using youtube channels eg Richard Chinese, Everyday Chinese etc etc.
I found “Colloquial Chinese” by Qian Kan along with the audio. By lesson 6 I was starting to talk and understand Chinese with native speakers. I was truly impressed with how useful this course is. There’s also Colloquial Chinese 2 by the same author.
Totally agree on vocabulary and some grammar as very important first steps. One thing I would highly advise against is learning how to physically write Chinese words if you don’t find any joy in doing so. If you like it then more power to you. However it’s rare to write words in the time of online learning. I would instead recommend learning basic pinyin with the keyboard. It’s really useful and just takes repitition to become proficient.
Yea, but you still need to recognize the words first so might as well just write it all out as that's a good way to memorize their appearance and pinyin.
Indeed, I think it can be a little overwhelming to try to learn so many aspects (listening, reading, speaking, writing, pinyin, tones...) at first, as I'm a beginner I'm focusing more on the reading and hearing parts, but I try to draw the characters on a simplified version (你 becomes a 1 followed by a T with three dashes, lol).
I grew up learning chinese and can't imagine actually learning from scratch DAMN. It's a lot more challenging when you're older. The way I learnt it when i was younger was flashcards and then textbooks. We would learn the basic words with pictures and then further learning by reading the sample texts in the textbooks. They sell packs of 100 flashcards in Popular(singapore-malaysia based) So yeah, downgrade to picutre books i guess. I find duolingo pretty useful and there's tons of apps. Word to the wise though, chinese is tricky because it isn't like english(duh) It doesn't have an alphabet that slides to together to make sounds-so theoretically you're never done with learning the first part of a language(pronouncing the word T..T) You have to learn each word's sound aka u have to search up every word you dont know and cant rely on context because its a 50/50 for pronounciation. Work hard... It's easier being surrounded by family/teachers who speak it, but yeah, I agree with finding a chat buddy. Some artists you can start off with(cpop) are Meng Jia, Luhan, IP, TFboys, Acrush.Pretty similar to kpop but you can branch out from there. 希望你们的学习会顺利,多多加油! 我来自新加坡,所以也不能说自己特别有掌握,比起中国人,还要多多尽一份力。就是说:我也在学习中文 kk I'm also still learning, the slang in China is something im not familiar with. And it's pretty obvious by my accent haha-or rather my lack of the sharp "china" accent.
There's a pinyin alphabet that Chinese school children learn before they learn characters. And pinyin is actually very iterative, once you learn the sounds, master the tones, I would say compared to English, there's a lot fewer sounds to practice. (Especially considering how many more homonyms are found in Chinese vs English.
I learn mandarin in school and even if most of my classmates are careless and dont care about learning it, I'm quite the opposite. Its feels...really rewarding when you can understand some mandarin you hear randomly. For example, there's a commercial on TV where a foreign couple learned a little bit of mandarin for their adopted daughter and the dad was like, "我是你的爸爸" and I was like BXUSISHAIB I UNDERSTOOD YOUUU 😅😅 Update: it’s 2 years later, and I’m a college freshmen! I decided to major in linguistics, with emphasis in Mandarin Chinese haha 我是大学生！我的专业是语言学，我学汉语 ☺️
There are several tips for how to learn Chinese Decide precisely why you want to speak Chinese Try to speak Chinese everyday Find what process works for you best. (I read about these and more from Magic Mandarin Blueprint website )
我个人的意见是先从基础的问候语，和平常要用到的单词开始学起，当你学会应用这些知识之后，就可以学习更复杂的语法这样一步一步慢慢来学习中文会变得简单很多。My personal opinion is to start with the basic greetings and the words you need to use. when you learn how to apply this knowledge, you can learn more complex grammar. it will be much easier to learn Chinese slowly. (Personal opinion, for reference only )OwO
There's a new kid in my school and he speaks only chinese, and im the guide since im the only one in class knowing 3 languages... so im here, hope this will work out somehow
I admire you to share your way to learn Mandarin. I am a Cantonese speaking Chinese in Hong Kong and I can also speak Mandarin. I can say to learn speaking Mandarin is quite different to learn written Chinese especially classic Chinese. Cantonese or south east Chinese has preference to understand classic Chinrse literature because southeast languages and dialects last much older than Mandarin almost two thousands years. By the way, I advise you learn traditional Chinese characters, of course, you may write in simplified characters. Since traditional characters let you more understand the meanings. Moreover, if you have interest, you may refer to the book of " six ways about Chinese character structure (六書説 lui Shu shuo), by 許慎 (Xiu Shen). The above saying is my experience to learn Chinese. I hope you understand my broken English.
Actually, I haven't really started learning any Chinese language and I still can't decide weather I should learn cantonese or mandarin! I like both but like a have a really good friend in Hong Kong so yeah.... I don't know haha
Hi. Like you, I am also self-studying Chinese, Japanese and Korean. But as of now, I just only know few basic words and phrases. I am so amazed that you managed to learn those three languages at the same time(?). I also wanted to be like you because since I was a kid, I already love to learn foreign languages. But when I tried to study those three languages at the same time, I got confused. I think I should study them one by one. Now, I am focusing on Chinese language. But I am having a difficulty in writing Chinese characters. It's so hard. Really. It's not as easy as learning Hangeul haha. I really wanted to learn more and improve. I hope that someday, I can also communicate in Chinese confidently like you :) Jiayou!
hey Lindie, I just wanted to let you know that your Chinese accent is quite good. What is especially impressive is that you have managed to learn so many languages, and hold yourself to high standards of pronunciation and proficiency. To be honest, Chinese is the only language I’ve seriously pursued and though I’d love to learn more languages I haven’t even become proficient in my second language (Chinese). Awesome channel and happy language learning! :)
I was stuck as a beginner in mandarin for years. I have made rapid progress since using a combination of Skritter (writing turned off), Standard HSK series of books and (most importantly) reading graded reader books on Pleco. Comprehensible input is the only way. I use an iTalki tutor for my output in making daily conversation. Working on HSK 5.
I have just discovered you and I love your videos; they are always a source of motivation. I am a language lover even though I don't speak many languages but I will definitely focus on this again. Thank you very much! :3
I‘m helping my friends learning Chinese now and I made some videos on my own. I fully agree you that you need to start with basic grammar and sentence structures, once you know some fundamental things, you have more confidence to continue learn, but pronunciation and tones are also very important in Chinese.
I just discovered your channel a few days ago and I love all your videos 😍 it's really motivated me to keep learning language. I currently learning Mandarin but sometimes I feel lazy 😅 also I still practicing my English. can you make a video about "study with me for Mandarin" or "Mandarin notebook tour"? or any video for study Mandarin . I have try to search those kind of videos for Mandarin on TH-cam 😢 most people more interested to learn Korea and Japanese 😅 Thank you , from Malaysia 💕
I studied beginner korean course before I started studying mandarin. There are many korean words that are borrowed from chinese. It made my memozariation of many chinese words so much easier. The fact that not many foreigners study mandarin actually makes me motivated to learn it cuz I feel like it makes me unique or something.
I found Mandarin Corner channel youtube helping me to learn Mandarin from scratch. It's Indonesian channel but I think there's no much different from our language so you can understand it easily
Hi, I am Korean and I I study Chinese living in Toronto, Canada. I tried to help my son to learn Chinese so that he can introduce himself in Chinese. We are making some videos but not easy. Thanks for your great videos. 😀
I've been learning for about 5 months and have only done conversational (no writing!). I find that it's a lot less intimidating to start this way, as you can out off the characters for a bit, and when you do do them, you'll know exactly how to pronounce each word and thus will better be able to associate the character with the word!
An app that I find useful as well is DailyMandarin, you can write the word using pinyim or english and it teaches you how to draw the chinese character (with stroke order and everything).
Best way to start learning Chinese in my opinion is - - - - - drum roll please - - - - - Hello Chinese App - - - - for Android or Iphones. At least 1 million people who started with it would agree with this.... This is not a paid commercial, just sharing my enthusiasm.
Hello Chinese app, I have used before. About for several months. Yes really good. And new app that I try is Chinese Skill. Wow also good app! Recommended!
I am learning Chinese recently, and I think people should also know some Classical Chinese so that you could better understand native expressions. Like: I love three things in this world. Sun, moon and you. Sun for morning, moon for night, and you forever Means: 浮华三世，吾爱有三； 日、月、与卿； 日为朝，月为暮， 卿为朝朝暮暮 And if you read out, you could feel the rhymes.
I'm not learning chinese but after i learned korean and japanese i think i'm gonna start learning chinese :) thanks for ur video! It rlly inspired me to learn chinese!! ;*
Same after reaching upper intermediate in Korean I started having some interest in Chinese Today's my first day searching for tips and it sounds great that other people are interested in learning languages
Thanks for the tip Lindie! I started learning Mandarin in April 2019. Doing everything but lacking conversations with a person. 2020 will be that goal. 🙏🏼👍🏽
+exo legend nice to meet you! For pronunciation I think it's just important to listen to native speakers a lot and repeat what they say. Watching movies and tv is a good idea. Good luck!
Hi, nice to meet you. I watched your videos for the first time. I’m inspired your thinking how to study Chinese. I’m Chinese and English leaner. I’m so currently studying right now as well. It’s easy to talk your English and Chinese. Thanks a million.
我是一个中国人，在我们中国，最让我们头痛的就是：英语考试，没有之一。看到这个视频发现，原来你们学习中文也是难到掉头发，心情释怀了很多，原来，你们。加油。I am a Chinese. In our country, the most headache for us is: English exam, none of them. After seeing this video, I found that it is difficult for you to lose hair when studying Chinese, and you feel relieved. It turns out that you. Come on.
Hi guys, I'm a native Chinese speaker. I'm now a college senior based in Tianjin and I would love to improve my spoken English. If anyone is interested in improving their spoken Chinese and willing to help me with my English, feel free to contact me. We can either skype or meet in person if you're also in Tianjin. Also I'm learning Korean, and got great tips from this channel. Thanks Lindie!
+Anderson Steven Mendez Chipatecua hi! I have a video on tips to learn Japanese and they're all applicable to self studying, so please take a look at that! 💖
I hope to have chance to meet you and talk to you. Vietnamese is my mother tongue, English is the second language, Mandarin is the third I am learning. Your TH-cam channel motivates me on my learning path.
Im learning korean( middle beginner level) japanese ( intermediate) and beginning madarin but im I dont have anyone to practice someone be study buddies with me 😂❤️
I also started self studying Chinese in the beginning, but found that it was so limiting when I came to live in China 8 years ago. I think it’s so cool that you love studying Chinese too. But you need to come here and study with professionals if you want a workable level of Chinese. I appreciate your passion, please keep working on your Chinese.
Your pronunciation is kind of off but that’s probably bc you’re learning it now lol. This really motivated me try to learn Chinese again. I’ve tired before but gave up bc i felt too forced to do it. I might try again soon :)
1.listen to the language 2. Learn grammar structure 3.Get a dictionary 4. Do exercises 5.form a system to study 6.rinse and repeat 7. Test your knowledge with quiz 8.Use it a lot with someone who well versed( I didnt have this so I read novels) 过后不就是像我一样吗？已经过了15年 华语文化怎么丰富，哪里比不上别的文化。别吵架了各位朋友
I used to be fluent in Chinese, but then I got caught up in a lot of other languages, and I didn't practice for a while. Do you have any tips for regaining your skills?
Hi Lindie, I've started learning Mandarin(slowly but surely) and wanted to know where did you get your textbooks(in stores or online) I'm also South African so good language learning bookstore recommendations would really help. I've tried looking for Chinese artists, but haven't found any that I liked so far if you could give me some artist recommendations as well that would be great! Thank you for your inspirational videos💕
As a Chinese,I could recommend u some singers fomous in China. Because I dont know what kind of music u like.I will list their Chinese name,u can copy them and find their music. male singer:周杰伦，林俊杰，陈奕迅，薛之谦，李荣浩，张学友，王力宏，朴树，李健 female singer:王菲，邓丽君，邓紫棋，蔡健雅，陈粒，孙燕姿，金玟岐，那英，莫文蔚，张靓颖，张惠妹，蔡依林 group:苏打绿，五月天，Beyond，逃跑计划，GALA，好妹妹乐队，SHE
Pleco is literally the best! It teaches simplified and traditional characters. I’ve had the app since 2012, and it had made my studying for mandarin in school for 4 years so much easier
hello，I’m Jingning and I’m a native Chinese speaker. If you want to learn more Chinese in system, you can go to “verbalplanet” and take Jingning Miao’s class. You will enjoy your first class for free.I hope you can insist learning Chinese and find its interest.
Thank you for sharing your ideas and pointing towards resources 😊 I've been living in Beijing, but home in Ireland now waiting out the virus. Trying to make the most of the free time by studying Chinese 🤓
Sometimes when I listen to music and sing along my brain switches lyrics to sentences in different languages, And I’m wondering if that’s what happens with you too :v since you mentioned music. 🎶
I always have a high admiration of you guys who master several languages.I am from China.I've learned English for 6 years ,yet.you can see my English level.so could you please give me some advice on how to learn English well?
MysticM3lody I do understand what you said'and think you for speaking highly of my English.but I find it's hard to learn the preposition of English ，the sentence structure and the idiomatic usage.you are learning Chinese now? Why don't we help each other?i think you will learn Chinese easily.cus Chinese blood is flowing in your body.23333.
At Uni we're using Colloquial Chinese (T'ung & Pollard), it's 2 books - one focuses on grammar with explanations on each speech pattern or grammar point (only Pinyin, no characters), and the other book is all about writing and reading and shows the stroke order, meaning and pinyin of each characters. The books reflect eachother, the speech patterns you see in the character book is explained in detail in the grammar book along with the pinyin for the characters. There's also dialogues, sketches, etc. It's a great set of books and our 老师 considers it the best text books available. It gave me a great foundation.
Merci beaucoup c'est exactement la video dont j'avais besoin ! Et oui je me permets de te parler français maintenant que tu commences à avoir un bon niveau de langue ;)
I am currently learning Korean. Your videos have been very helpful, even though this a video about Chinese! Duo Lingo has helped me tremendously so far in helping me identify sentences ( Not advanced sentences, as Im an ABSOLUTE BEGINNER!) and help me with my pronunciation. I have also been using an app called Drops, which helped me learn Hangul and learn individual words. Anyways, I would like to say that you are doing a great job and keep it up!
+Carmelia Macpherson it depends on which one you're learning. Standard Mandarin used in mainland China is generally written in Simplified characters. Cantonese and Mandarin used in Taiwan is written in traditional. I use traditional because most people I talk to are from Taiwan, and the characters have much more meaning that's been taken away in simplified.
린디 Lindie Botes just one thing to correct. You can't really "write" Cantonese in a different way than mandarin. They both use the same characters. People in hk use traditional mandarin whereas people in canton (Guangdong) use simplified ones.
In my opinion, if a foreigner wants to be good at Chinese, the first thing is mastering tones. Everything else is secondary. Most Chinese people don't care how many hanzi you can write or vocabularies you control, but if your pronunciation is not normal, your Chinese level will be thought basic
For a Chinese show I would recommend Idol Producer. There's eng subs on the channel Idol Producer Subs #2. There's music in it so I printed out the lyric to up my vocab. It definitely motivated me to learn Chinese more
I think it's really important to enjoy language learning process, another show I recommend is "Youth with you" it's really interesting (maybe not as interesting as idol producer 😩🥰) and to add Chinese dramas to the list
Thank you for telling me about LingoDeer. I just downloaded and am already learning lots of new things! Hopefully one day I can write this comment in Chinese!
加油啊~中文是世界上最難的語言，不過學好很有用的 Does any one konw what is I say?😂 I'm Chinese. And my English is not very good,so I study hard and keep practicing English now 有人看得懂我在寫什麼嗎？😂我是中國人，嗯……我的英文不是很好，所以我現在正在努力學習和繼續練習英文 喔我這是繁體，大概沒人看得懂吧哈哈哈😂 各位加油啦～
Hello! I am willing to help you once in a while to speak in English. Feel free to message me. :)) I'm currently studying Chinese language as my third language.
as long as you can read chinese though you do not need to know the stroke orders. I usually will write a few times to make cue cards but aside from that i just use a pinyin keyboard
You are motivating me .. Each time I look at your video I study right after because you provide good tips. For now I'm learning Japanese, but after that I think moving to chinese and It's still useful to grab some tips. Thanks a lot for your video and congrats for your ability to speak many languages :O !!
I am Chinese.I'm studing english now But not very well.I hope everyone who is studying Chinese here will get big progress.
Hi there, I am Vietnamese, I've studied English for a long time, and recently I've been learning Chinese. It's such a beautiful but difficult tongue. It's been 2 years, I hope you got better your English.
Hey Let's be friends
If you want we can be friends I can speak English and Spanish also I can help you.
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Hiii! I am Russian, studying Chinese right now. Hopefully you’ve made a huge progress in English since 3 years have passed! And thank you very much!
As a Chinese learner, I also advise to start with the radicals then learn whole characters, because the radicals are the building blocks of every Chinese character so memorising them first helps you almost instantly remember any Chinese character you will meet.When I began learning Chinese, I started directly learning whole characters without knowing about the radicals so it was much harder that way, thats why I'm still so bad at writing in Chinese.
I am a Chinese student in the US. I 100% agree with what you said! When I was a child, I start the characters with radicals first in school. That is 100% great advice. I am also learning English now by trying to remember more prefixes and suffixes so that I can identify unfamiliar words. You can understand 80% of Chinese words if you remember Chinese radicals well. left the 20%, cause most Chinese don't even recognize them. Chinese started with pictographs, so remember what they look like when you memorize the radicals! You will be good!
@@chengbowen8264 This is not the only reason I'm not that good at writing Chinese.I use Chinese keyboard with Pinyin input so when I have to write in Chinese by hand I still forget the characters because I didn't have exercised handwriting enough, even though now I know the method of learning Chinese characters.On the other hand, that's right.Sometimes I'm surprised that I can guess the correct meaning and pronunciation of a character based on its radicals even though I never learned it before.It helps a lot with reading.
Hi, where have you learn chinese radicals? (TH-cam, books, apps) Can you share with me?
@@dulmaria.d I am chinese and started learning chinese now. I use radicals to build more characters and memerise by practise writing. Try to remember the meaning of the radicals and what category of words are attached with it. i use the apps name Pleco. Pleco is very comprehensive except it dont provide grammars and sentences. I guess you need to invest in a good dictionary. I also search for chinese radicals in youtube. In addition i learn chinese online myself using youtube channels eg Richard Chinese, Everyday Chinese etc etc.
I found “Colloquial Chinese” by Qian Kan along with the audio. By lesson 6 I was starting to talk and understand Chinese with native speakers. I was truly impressed with how useful this course is. There’s also Colloquial Chinese 2 by the same author.
Totally agree on vocabulary and some grammar as very important first steps. One thing I would highly advise against is learning how to physically write Chinese words if you don’t find any joy in doing so. If you like it then more power to you. However it’s rare to write words in the time of online learning. I would instead recommend learning basic pinyin with the keyboard. It’s really useful and just takes repitition to become proficient.
I am finding the Chinese characters hard also
I found writing 汉字 to be much easier that speaking actually. Getting tones correctly is the most challenging part for me.
Yea, but you still need to recognize the words first so might as well just write it all out as that's a good way to memorize their appearance and pinyin.
Thank you
Indeed, I think it can be a little overwhelming to try to learn so many aspects (listening, reading, speaking, writing, pinyin, tones...) at first, as I'm a beginner I'm focusing more on the reading and hearing parts, but I try to draw the characters on a simplified version (你 becomes a 1 followed by a T with three dashes, lol).
I’m Chinese and I dunno why I’m watching this lol 😂大家加油啦！💪🏼
有可能是Lindie太漂亮吧 😂
If you have language partners, learning stuff like this can help you guide them a little.
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I love how you added the step " Keep Track Of Your Progress"! That's not one you see often-but super important!
A language means a whole world. It's unlimited! Starting from those are basic and practical in your daily life and keep using them every day.
I grew up learning chinese and can't imagine actually learning from scratch DAMN. It's a lot more challenging when you're older. The way I learnt it when i was younger was flashcards and then textbooks. We would learn the basic words with pictures and then further learning by reading the sample texts in the textbooks. They sell packs of 100 flashcards in Popular(singapore-malaysia based) So yeah, downgrade to picutre books i guess. I find duolingo pretty useful and there's tons of apps.
Word to the wise though, chinese is tricky because it isn't like english(duh) It doesn't have an alphabet that slides to together to make sounds-so theoretically you're never done with learning the first part of a language(pronouncing the word T..T) You have to learn each word's sound aka u have to search up every word you dont know and cant rely on context because its a 50/50 for pronounciation. Work hard...
It's easier being surrounded by family/teachers who speak it, but yeah, I agree with finding a chat buddy. Some artists you can start off with(cpop) are Meng Jia, Luhan, IP, TFboys, Acrush.Pretty similar to kpop but you can branch out from there. 希望你们的学习会顺利,多多加油! 我来自新加坡,所以也不能说自己特别有掌握,比起中国人,还要多多尽一份力。就是说:我也在学习中文 kk
I'm also still learning, the slang in China is something im not familiar with. And it's pretty obvious by my accent haha-or rather my lack of the sharp "china" accent.
mroaw a Ayee, Singaporean here too
Cass hey there fren
There's a pinyin alphabet that Chinese school children learn before they learn characters. And pinyin is actually very iterative, once you learn the sounds, master the tones, I would say compared to English, there's a lot fewer sounds to practice. (Especially considering how many more homonyms are found in Chinese vs English.
Im a malay from malaysian and im in progress of learning chinese, hopefully one day i can speak and write very well
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I learn mandarin in school and even if most of my classmates are careless and dont care about learning it, I'm quite the opposite. Its feels...really rewarding when you can understand some mandarin you hear randomly. For example, there's a commercial on TV where a foreign couple learned a little bit of mandarin for their adopted daughter and the dad was like, "我是你的爸爸" and I was like BXUSISHAIB I UNDERSTOOD YOUUU
😅😅
Update: it’s 2 years later, and I’m a college freshmen! I decided to major in linguistics, with emphasis in Mandarin Chinese haha 我是大学生！我的专业是语言学，我学汉语 ☺️
미영 may i know where u from？
@@s2007098Are you asking where I live or my nationality?
both...
I am Chinese btw
@@s2007098 Nice, 我是韩国人，可是我住在美国。I hope I typed that alright. 😅
Hi Lindie if you ever come to Shanghai, let's meet up! I'm also a language learner :) Good tips btw!
Ohh Kevinn😍😗 love u
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Kevin can we meet up in Shanghai please I speak Chinese too
She's cute normally but when she speaks Chinese somehow she's even cuter ajsjsn
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处女座; ikr!
i am chinese man,if you wanna learn chinese just talk to me.
可爱，想舔
There are several tips for how to learn Chinese
Decide precisely why you want to speak Chinese
Try to speak Chinese everyday
Find what process works for you best.
(I read about these and more from Magic Mandarin Blueprint website )
我个人的意见是先从基础的问候语，和平常要用到的单词开始学起，当你学会应用这些知识之后，就可以学习更复杂的语法这样一步一步慢慢来学习中文会变得简单很多。My personal opinion is to start with the basic greetings and the words you need to use. when you learn how to apply this knowledge, you can learn more complex grammar. it will be much easier to learn Chinese slowly. (Personal opinion, for reference only )OwO
xiake 233 my 問候語？「調理露毛」
是的，学什么，都是要有“常识”基础的，不然没有地基，怎么造房子。跟着学几句玩玩，兴趣没了，就根本学不下去了～
应该从象形文字开始，汉字太难了
@@barronhung8246 中国现在是中国大陆和中国台湾，你上面的是 繁体字，是中国台湾用的比较多，大陆用的是简体。简体相对容易
There's a new kid in my school and he speaks only chinese, and im the guide since im the only one in class knowing 3 languages... so im here, hope this will work out somehow
Update: yo guys, whilst i was trying to learn chinese, he learned english. His accent is adorable. WAIT-
@@alexuniverse5413 awhhh
Awww🥺
@@alexuniverse5413 ı probs shouldnt ship you
Glad it turned out well
I understand everything she said, I'd like to be as fluent in Chinese as I am in English
How long have you been learning?
OMG, I love your determination. I'm learning Spanish and French now and your videos raise my motivation a lot. Thank you 🙏❤️
I admire you to share your way to learn Mandarin. I am a Cantonese speaking Chinese in Hong Kong and I can also speak Mandarin. I can say to learn speaking Mandarin is quite different to learn
written Chinese especially classic Chinese. Cantonese or south east Chinese has preference to understand classic Chinrse literature because southeast languages and dialects last much older than Mandarin almost two thousands years. By the way, I advise you learn traditional Chinese characters, of course, you may write in simplified characters. Since traditional characters let you more understand the meanings. Moreover, if you have interest, you may refer to the book of " six ways about Chinese character structure (六書説 lui Shu shuo), by 許慎 (Xiu Shen). The above saying is my experience to learn Chinese. I hope you understand my broken English.
Lui Shu Shuo (六書説) is from Shuo Wen Jie so (説文解字 study and explanation of characters).
Actually, I haven't really started learning any Chinese language and I still can't decide weather I should learn cantonese or mandarin! I like both but like a have a really good friend in Hong Kong so yeah.... I don't know haha
你嘅英文唔算差得去邊
英文好唔錯
This might be a dumb question but what is the difference of Mandarin and Chinese?
Hi. Like you, I am also self-studying Chinese, Japanese and Korean. But as of now, I just only know few basic words and phrases. I am so amazed that you managed to learn those three languages at the same time(?). I also wanted to be like you because since I was a kid, I already love to learn foreign languages. But when I tried to study those three languages at the same time, I got confused. I think I should study them one by one. Now, I am focusing on Chinese language. But I am having a difficulty in writing Chinese characters. It's so hard. Really. It's not as easy as learning Hangeul haha. I really wanted to learn more and improve. I hope that someday, I can also communicate in Chinese confidently like you :) Jiayou!
加油
keeping patient and repeating.
How’s it been going for you?
I am learning chinese, japanese and korean as well
你好琳迪！ 我非常喜欢你的视频，你的建议和你给我们推荐的网站和应用都很有意思，我觉得对汉语学者很有帮助。我本人是希腊人，自从2009年因为很喜欢中文而当汉语老师。我一看见还有别人跟我一样喜欢汉语， 我就非常高兴！加油！
Hey can you be my friend? I am learning Chinese and I want someone to communicate with
Tandem is also a great alternative to HelloTalk . I've managed to filter my results and find people who live close to me to practice with!
+scottieglot good to know! Recently HT has been really laggy for me and I get too many unwanted chats, so maybe I'll try Tandem! 謝謝你
I started using Speaky. It's free and easy to filter out the creeps!
hey Lindie, I just wanted to let you know that your Chinese accent is quite good. What is especially impressive is that you have managed to learn so many languages, and hold yourself to high standards of pronunciation and proficiency. To be honest, Chinese is the only language I’ve seriously pursued and though I’d love to learn more languages I haven’t even become proficient in my second language (Chinese). Awesome channel and happy language learning! :)
I was stuck as a beginner in mandarin for years. I have made rapid progress since using a combination of Skritter (writing turned off), Standard HSK series of books and (most importantly) reading graded reader books on Pleco. Comprehensible input is the only way. I use an iTalki tutor for my output in making daily conversation. Working on HSK 5.
I have just discovered you and I love your videos; they are always a source of motivation. I am a language lover even though I don't speak many languages but I will definitely focus on this again. Thank you very much! :3
I‘m helping my friends learning Chinese now and I made some videos on my own. I fully agree you that you need to start with basic grammar and sentence structures, once you know some fundamental things, you have more confidence to continue learn, but pronunciation and tones are also very important in Chinese.
I'm a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese! 謝謝妳分享給大家很多學習語言的技巧!
I just discovered your channel a few days ago and I love all your videos 😍 it's really motivated me to keep learning language. I currently learning Mandarin but sometimes I feel lazy 😅 also I still practicing my English. can you make a video about "study with me for Mandarin" or "Mandarin notebook tour"? or any video for study Mandarin . I have try to search those kind of videos for Mandarin on TH-cam 😢 most people more interested to learn Korea and Japanese 😅
Thank you , from Malaysia 💕
idk. Hey! I’m a fellow kpop stan who is learning Chinese. If you like we can learn together! 😊
Here a thumbs up 👍 from me too.
I want to learn Chinese too !
I studied beginner korean course before I started studying mandarin. There are many korean words that are borrowed from chinese. It made my memozariation of many chinese words so much easier. The fact that not many foreigners study mandarin actually makes me motivated to learn it cuz I feel like it makes me unique or something.
I found Mandarin Corner channel youtube helping me to learn Mandarin from scratch. It's Indonesian channel but I think there's no much different from our language so you can understand it easily
Hi, I am Korean and I I study Chinese living in Toronto, Canada. I tried to help my son to learn Chinese so that he can introduce himself in Chinese. We are making some videos but not easy. Thanks for your great videos. 😀
your grammar and vocab is great but your intonation isn't very right but it's almost there !! 加油！💘💘
you mean her chinese or (american) english?
dave101t chinese 🤩
Russian
That means keep going right? Don't know read and right, I'm failure as a Chinese person.
@12345soccerguy definitely not haha
I've been learning for about 5 months and have only done conversational (no writing!). I find that it's a lot less intimidating to start this way, as you can out off the characters for a bit, and when you do do them, you'll know exactly how to pronounce each word and thus will better be able to associate the character with the word!
She’s so cute when she speaks in chinese 😊
I'm from Vietnam. It's really helpful but why I haven't known about your video until now. You're so friendly and excellent. ❤🤗
I'm a Chinese and I don't speak Chinese, I speak Viet 😅
i'm studying Korean, what am i doing here😂 xD
Same, but chinese is also cool, and the place where most of korean culture came from.
I'm learning both but I don't know what I'm doing so oops
taehyung's wifeu me too~~~
U were interesting in Chinese just a moment 🤣😂
@@nikablue9340 me too ahahah
我十五岁，我在学校正在学习汉语。我觉得中文非常有趣因为汉字很漂亮。我将来想做老师因为我觉得孩子应该学汉语，法文或者西班牙文。谢谢，再见！
Wow, so many textbooks! You're such a hard-working student! (Applause)
An app that I find useful as well is DailyMandarin, you can write the word using pinyim or english and it teaches you how to draw the chinese character (with stroke order and everything).
Best way to start learning Chinese in my opinion is - - - - - drum roll please - - - - - Hello Chinese App - - - - for Android or Iphones. At least 1 million people who started with it would agree with this.... This is not a paid commercial, just sharing my enthusiasm.
explorer ChineseSkill is also very good 😀
Hello Chinese app, I have used before. About for several months. Yes really good. And new app that I try is Chinese Skill. Wow also good app! Recommended!
explorer
@explorer thanks a million!
I am learning Chinese recently,
and I think people should also know some Classical Chinese so that you could better understand native expressions.
Like:
I love three things in this world.
Sun, moon and you.
Sun for morning, moon for night,
and you forever
Means:
浮华三世，吾爱有三；
日、月、与卿；
日为朝，月为暮，
卿为朝朝暮暮
And if you read out, you could feel the rhymes.
I'm not learning chinese but after i learned korean and japanese i think i'm gonna start learning chinese :) thanks for ur video! It rlly inspired me to learn chinese!! ;*
What are you???
ding dao what do u mean?
Lol, the conversation above is funny.
Same after reaching upper intermediate in Korean I started having some interest in Chinese
Today's my first day searching for tips and it sounds great that other people are interested in learning languages
감사합니다*
Thanks for the tip Lindie! I started learning Mandarin in April 2019. Doing everything but lacking conversations with a person. 2020 will be that goal. 🙏🏼👍🏽
I’m so happy to find your channel 💓💓
Wish if u talked more about how to learn the pinyin and pronunciation ㅜㅜ
+ New subscriber ✨.
+exo legend nice to meet you! For pronunciation I think it's just important to listen to native speakers a lot and repeat what they say. Watching movies and tv is a good idea. Good luck!
我們很驚訝你會一開始就推薦中文認字，這是大多數人覺得最困難的部分。我們很喜歡妳的影片，也恭喜你的中文學習充滿了熱情和毅力!!! 加油
他是语言天才。不走寻常路。
My hopes when I realized that I could read the title: 📈📈📈
Hi, nice to meet you. I watched your videos for the first time. I’m inspired your thinking how to study Chinese. I’m Chinese and English leaner. I’m so currently studying right now as well. It’s easy to talk your English and Chinese. Thanks a million.
Yeah ! I’m Cambodian and I just learning Chinese. I hope one day I can speak Chinese fluently. And have friends are Chinese . Can anyone be my friend?
你好!!
我在台湾念中文的韩国学生!
我羡慕你的语言天分~!
Idk why i watched this im not even learning chinese 😂😂
我是一个中国人，在我们中国，最让我们头痛的就是：英语考试，没有之一。看到这个视频发现，原来你们学习中文也是难到掉头发，心情释怀了很多，原来，你们。加油。I am a Chinese. In our country, the most headache for us is: English exam, none of them. After seeing this video, I found that it is difficult for you to lose hair when studying Chinese, and you feel relieved. It turns out that you. Come on.
Our school has been teaching us chinese since nursery but still the only chinese character I know is wo (I)
beeba stunner ，，我 你 他（她） hehe it's fun
+ is a chinese character too, why not learn that one too
@@deemac3470 十
I pay 78 RMB per month for Rosetta Stone and I absolutely love it!
100% recommended...
Btw, Excellent video!!!
who dare dislike?
디 트렐DetrellTV someone who hate textbooks 📚
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HELPFUL THIS VIDEO WAS 😁 thank you so much :)))
*I got a ChinesePod ad before this.*
Hi guys, I'm a native Chinese speaker. I'm now a college senior based in Tianjin and I would love to improve my spoken English. If anyone is interested in improving their spoken Chinese and willing to help me with my English, feel free to contact me. We can either skype or meet in person if you're also in Tianjin. Also I'm learning Korean, and got great tips from this channel. Thanks Lindie!
Me! Well, I'm trying to advance my Mandarin,but also began learning Korean :)
I am Chinese, happy to see so many Chinese learners.
Hi, I love your videos. you could do a self-study for japanese? ¡Please!. How did you increase your conversational level in Japanese?
+Anderson Steven Mendez Chipatecua hi! I have a video on tips to learn Japanese and they're all applicable to self studying, so please take a look at that! 💖
I hope to have chance to meet you and talk to you. Vietnamese is my mother tongue, English is the second language, Mandarin is the third I am learning. Your TH-cam channel motivates me on my learning path.
Im learning korean( middle beginner level) japanese ( intermediate) and beginning madarin but im I dont have anyone to practice someone be study buddies with me 😂❤️
I also started self studying Chinese in the beginning, but found that it was so limiting when I came to live in China 8 years ago. I think it’s so cool that you love studying Chinese too. But you need to come here and study with professionals if you want a workable level of Chinese. I appreciate your passion, please keep working on your Chinese.
I'm definitely enjoying learning Chinese from native speakers around me. This is an old video. I live in Singapore now :)
how does this comment only have 1 likes?
Your pronunciation is kind of off but that’s probably bc you’re learning it now lol. This really motivated me try to learn Chinese again. I’ve tired before but gave up bc i felt too forced to do it. I might try again soon :)
You’re so good at this omg . You have the ability of traveling by yourself
Great video, as usual Lindie! 做得好! Just a head's up, Lang8 is not accepting new members and it's been closed to new members for almost a year now.
+Michelle Alter that's crazy! Thanks for letting me know! I guess italki became too popular for them lol!
1.listen to the language
2. Learn grammar structure
3.Get a dictionary
4. Do exercises
5.form a system to study
6.rinse and repeat
7. Test your knowledge with quiz
8.Use it a lot with someone who well versed( I didnt have this so I read novels)
过后不就是像我一样吗？已经过了15年
华语文化怎么丰富，哪里比不上别的文化。别吵架了各位朋友
Oh my gosh I actually understood that beginning part mostly
Want to learn Chinese, to find a want to learn English, so mutual progress will be very fast.想学中文， 要找一个想学英语的，这样互相进步会很快的。
I used to be fluent in Chinese, but then I got caught up in a lot of other languages, and I didn't practice for a while. Do you have any tips for regaining your skills?
Great tips and good luck with learning chinese! 😊 It's always difficult especially for beginners but with plenty of regular practice, you can do it 👍🏼
Hi Lindie, I've started learning Mandarin(slowly but surely) and wanted to know where did you get your textbooks(in stores or online) I'm also South African so good language learning bookstore recommendations would really help. I've tried looking for Chinese artists, but haven't found any that I liked so far if you could give me some artist recommendations as well that would be great! Thank you for your inspirational videos💕
Ai-mee Ding I don't really know any Chinese musicians apart from Luhan, Tao and Lay, but I have a feeling you already know about them.
As a Chinese,I could recommend u some singers fomous in China. Because I dont know what kind of music u like.I will list their Chinese name,u can copy them and find their music.
male singer:周杰伦，林俊杰，陈奕迅，薛之谦，李荣浩，张学友，王力宏，朴树，李健
female singer:王菲，邓丽君，邓紫棋，蔡健雅，陈粒，孙燕姿，金玟岐，那英，莫文蔚，张靓颖，张惠妹，蔡依林
group:苏打绿，五月天，Beyond，逃跑计划，GALA，好妹妹乐队，SHE
meng jia!! she's a mandopop singer💕
Rima Zedan and Timmy Xu are also two great rising Chinese singers
Try listening to Love, Exist it's a romantic song from meteor garden! I'm sure you would love it😊
I teach Spanish to Chinese speaking students...I would like to congratulate you. You have attained that dazed gaze they have.
妳怎麼會這麼聰明..............
Pleco is literally the best! It teaches simplified and traditional characters. I’ve had the app since 2012, and it had made my studying for mandarin in school for 4 years so much easier
"hello chinese" android app is a good way to start
老師的教學非常棒,學任何語言都要有{持之以恆}{半途不費}的精神去學習,才會有成果!!{一分耕耘一分獲},絕對沒有{不勞而獲}的方法
When I first started learning Mandarin, I used a free app called HelloChinese. I highly recommend it.
hello，I’m Jingning and I’m a native Chinese speaker. If you want to learn more Chinese in system, you can go to “verbalplanet” and take Jingning Miao’s class. You will enjoy your first class for free.I hope you can insist learning Chinese and find its interest.
Thank you for sharing your ideas and pointing towards resources 😊 I've been living in Beijing, but home in Ireland now waiting out the virus. Trying to make the most of the free time by studying Chinese 🤓
Sometimes when I listen to music and sing along my brain switches lyrics to sentences in different languages,
And I’m wondering if that’s what happens with you too :v since you mentioned music. 🎶
Starting an intermediate class in college soon, but took a couple years in high school. Xie Xie Ni -- I appreciate your help!
I always have a high admiration of you guys who master several languages.I am from China.I've learned English for 6 years ,yet.you can see my English level.so could you please give me some advice on how to learn English well?
MysticM3lody I do understand what you said'and think you for speaking highly of my English.but I find it's hard to learn the preposition of English ，the sentence structure and the idiomatic usage.you are learning Chinese now? Why don't we help
each other?i think you will learn Chinese easily.cus Chinese blood is flowing in your body.23333.
@zhao xin 哈哈，我跟你一样，中文学得六年了，还没有得到我想要的流利度。 ;u; I'm pretty good with English, maybe we can learn together? :D
Hidden Fryer yeah.i ' d love to.but how do I contact you?by WeChat or fb?btw.where you from?
我通常用Discord，听过了吗？email也可以。如果不行，那我快去下载WeChat 吧 ^^ 我是菲律宾人。o/
Hidden Fryer 我已经下载discord了，我的名字是prejudice and pride.add me
i have been learning it for two years and i couldn't believe it i was able to understand you not all of it but mostly :))
Please do a video for learning korean!
+Tim I have one for how I learn Korean vocab, a few language lessons. Please take a look through my videos :)
At Uni we're using Colloquial Chinese (T'ung & Pollard), it's 2 books - one focuses on grammar with explanations on each speech pattern or grammar point (only Pinyin, no characters), and the other book is all about writing and reading and shows the stroke order, meaning and pinyin of each characters. The books reflect eachother, the speech patterns you see in the character book is explained in detail in the grammar book along with the pinyin for the characters. There's also dialogues, sketches, etc. It's a great set of books and our 老师 considers it the best text books available. It gave me a great foundation.
妳的普通話說的還不賴～繼續加油吧
You got lovely Chinese characters in the end of video! You know what, your writing has a personality of seriousness and perseverance! 学霸！ 👍 😀
Merci beaucoup c'est exactement la video dont j'avais besoin ! Et oui je me permets de te parler français maintenant que tu commences à avoir un bon niveau de langue ;)
Fabien Dane moi aussi, j’étudie le français 😃
I am currently learning Korean. Your videos have been very helpful, even though this a video about Chinese! Duo Lingo has helped me tremendously so far in helping me identify sentences ( Not advanced sentences, as Im an ABSOLUTE BEGINNER!) and help me with my pronunciation. I have also been using an app called Drops, which helped me learn Hangul and learn individual words. Anyways, I would like to say that you are doing a great job and keep it up!
For writing chinese characters in android keyboard, there is traditional and simplified chinese, which do I use?
+Carmelia Macpherson it depends on which one you're learning. Standard Mandarin used in mainland China is generally written in Simplified characters. Cantonese and Mandarin used in Taiwan is written in traditional. I use traditional because most people I talk to are from Taiwan, and the characters have much more meaning that's been taken away in simplified.
린디 Lindie Botes thanks Lindie!!!
린디 Lindie Botes just one thing to correct. You can't really "write" Cantonese in a different way than mandarin. They both use the same characters. People in hk use traditional mandarin whereas people in canton (Guangdong) use simplified ones.
TRADITIONAL PLEASE
Lindie Botes wait do Taiwanese use Cantonese? I thought only people from Guangdong and Hong Kong use it
In my opinion, if a foreigner wants to be good at Chinese, the first thing is mastering tones. Everything else is secondary. Most Chinese people don't care how many hanzi you can write or vocabularies you control, but if your pronunciation is not normal, your Chinese level will be thought basic
You are soooo smart! so cute😍😍😍
For a Chinese show I would recommend Idol Producer. There's eng subs on the channel Idol Producer Subs #2. There's music in it so I printed out the lyric to up my vocab. It definitely motivated me to learn Chinese more
I think it's really important to enjoy language learning process, another show I recommend is "Youth with you" it's really interesting (maybe not as interesting as idol producer 😩🥰) and to add Chinese dramas to the list
Thank you for telling me about LingoDeer. I just downloaded and am already learning lots of new things! Hopefully one day I can write this comment in Chinese!
yeah， you will
我在中国呆了一年。我现在正在叫别人简单的汉语。我希望你们继续努力学习~
加油啊~中文是世界上最難的語言，不過學好很有用的
Does any one konw what is I say?😂
I'm Chinese. And my English is not very good,so I study hard and keep practicing English now
有人看得懂我在寫什麼嗎？😂我是中國人，嗯……我的英文不是很好，所以我現在正在努力學習和繼續練習英文
喔我這是繁體，大概沒人看得懂吧哈哈哈😂
各位加油啦～
我覺得不是最難的！>3
其实外国人学中文，比中国人学外语简单。我从事语言学研究和教学10年了，来来来，欢迎来跟我学双语～
你是香港人还是台湾人？
我覺得中文應該除了要認漢字以外還滿簡單的吧，因為基本上我們也沒有什麼文法...不過文言文就另當別論了，我真的是看都看不懂，考試時還以為自己是智障😂
@@luciec1889 你提到了“文法”是“语法”吧？中文没有语法，你认真的吗？
Hi hi!! I just started to learn Chinise and your tips are super good! Thank you so much!!
非常好的video
video，Chinese 视频
你很棒，加油，坚持就是胜利✌🏻我来自上海，I just started a channel to share Chinese culture, Chinese language and life in China. 相互学习，多多交流，谢谢。
Can you teach me to speak English? 😂😂
Hello! I am willing to help you once in a while to speak in English. Feel free to message me. :)) I'm currently studying Chinese language as my third language.
I just started self learning Chinese like 2 weeks back and this video has been helpful. Thanks for all the advice. #Ugandan
Why do i need to learn how to write characters? I was told even Chinese people just type everything anyway.
as long as you can read chinese though you do not need to know the stroke orders. I usually will write a few times to make cue cards but aside from that i just use a pinyin keyboard
We still write the letters out when we are taking notes or writing letters and stuffs
You are motivating me .. Each time I look at your video I study right after because you provide good tips. For now I'm learning Japanese, but after that I think moving to chinese and It's still useful to grab some tips.
Thanks a lot for your video and congrats for your ability to speak many languages :O !!
我一生下下来就是华人-
Jung Hoseok, That one ball of extra sunshineu 哥，你想表达什么？哈哈哈
。。。是我的错觉吗？我怎么感觉你的中文有点不利索呢😂😂😂
哈哈哈，这个回复有点大逆转～
是不是大部分的外國人學中文都是學簡體字啊 哈哈哈😂😂😂😂
@@LouLou-ui6wm 我也有点疑问